The Billionaire Scheme to Doom Rural Children
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- Nebraska politicians caved to billionaires, passed a controversial school voucher program, and pissed off Nebraskans. So the people got a measure on the ballot to overturn it. Now they’re on the verge of an improbable victory to save public education in a deep red state.
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Our entire system is like this thanks to citizens united. We are governed by the whims of billionaires at every level as long as their dollars can water down our voices in politics.
@@April-t6z Until the make up of SCOTUS changes to 1-2 more liberal, I can't fathom the overturning of Citizens United. I long for C.U. to be overturned, and a long list of changes, 1 or 2 I hope to see come to fruition, even if just a good step forward. P25 will be a disaster in my opinion.
That's a reaganomic educated public, voting against themselves. Voting red,and hate propaganda.
Not clean water?
Republicans have been pavloved,
Even the human voice is dead, with background noise, in every discussion?
Like George Soros?
@@bruceulrich1231 how? What? You're another parrot, with
A name?
Not even the usual
General statement, Without Merritt?
It's a known fact, haven't you heard, republicans want to get rid of education dept, since reagan!
don't you pay attention, or just go with hate?
They want to get rid of unemployment benefits, social security, the mim.wage, heath care! They took woman's wombs!!! in America,? You're pro taliban?
Religious rule? Like the 1600s? The government owns your mom!! That you're OK with?
Unless it's you!?
Better wise up.
Fascism is racism against you, fool! Unless You're a millionaire? That's our artificial inflation, to get you to blame joe because it's democrats who tax the rich, and corporations.
You've become a pawn of hate. Voting against yourself!
Got clean water, or deregulation?
@@bruceulrich1231 No, like Elon Musk
In Texas last year, we VOTED AGAINST school vouchers and yet Abbott is still trying to get it passed.
Abbott does seem to be an EVIL person.
That's because abbot is ontologically Evil.
Don't worry bro, keep voting red I'm sure it will all fix itself with more deregulation and more capitalism for profits and socialism for losses in regard to big corpos
Vote Trump, be happy, you'll literally own nothing
These private voucher programs have three underlying goals:
1) Profit above anything else, including above quality education.
2) Control the kinds of education to ones beneficial to their own political ends.
3) Force those who aren't selected into their programs (typically but not exclusively poor, brown, and / or disabled) to accept limited education that pushes them into low wage occupations.
It's about robbing the public of money, critical thinking, and class mobility. All so those in power can have unchecked free reign. It's a pinnacle example of bankrupt social morality.
1. People wouldn't send their kids to schools that have bad education if they had a choice.
2. This gives parents the choice on where their students should go.
3. Public schools are literally the worst thing for our kids and everyone that owns a home is forced to pay for those schools regardless of if they have children going to them.
4. The public school system in America is really bad and they have no reason to do better because majority of people are forced to use them and pay for them.
@@zacharmstrong7807so why wouldn't you just fix the public schools instead making all education for profit?
@zacharmstrong7807
1) Public schools wouldn't be do bad if they got the funding they deserved.
2) Having said that, if private schools want public dollars, then they shouldn't be allowed to deny any student admission. But that is currently not the case, so most of the taxpayers are paying into a system they can't benefit from.
3) Watch again the whole bit in the video about fly by night grifters. The unregulated private school systems prey on un/misinformed parents.
4) Parental choice should not supersede the child's right to a quality education. Private schools can and often limit how much their students learn because it doesn't align with their political goals.
5) At the end of the day, given the high failure rate of for-profit private schools, this ultimately robs our children of years of education they can never get back. You'd be surprised how many kids from these for-profit schools graduate only to find their schools did not prepare them for college or adult life.
Remember, private & for-profit schools are not in it for your child's education. They're in it for money and anything else that helps increase their profits.
Exactly Michaels1059! Perfectly put!!!
@@zacharmstrong7807
1. Adjusted for selection bias (especially parental education and income) private and public schools have comparable outcomes.
2. Private school is inherently less cost-effective than public school.
3. Education benefits everyone in society so society should collectively pay for it. I am childless. I still benefit from future generations of smart people, and proportionally far more than the relatively small property tax bill.
4. It is bad because it is under-funded. Studies have shown that improving funding for public school results in equal or better outcomes than private school despite still being more cost effective than private. School vouchers make this problem worse, leading to a society where only rich people have a quality education, which is antithetical to progress, innovation, and plain human decency.
The problem with vouchers is that most private schools still cost more than the value of the vouchers. So regular people still can't afford it, it just means that already wealthy people, who are already putting their kids in private schools, now get to tale their money out of the public school system and reduce their tuition bill.
You see, why regular people need education? Being able to read and Sunday Bible school should be enough. Just work for food and serve more deserving people.
I'd say that's a problem on purpose. It's for snooty assholes who think they're royalty.
Without watching the video yet, I kinda sense this was the playbook. Thanks.
That's because the government has a monopoly on middle and low class education. There's no middle options
The teachers will have to compete with each other. The schools will have to compete with each. Price competition will happen. Right now "private schools" are only for the rich. That is the only market that exists. Most teachers can fall back on the union, and teach in mandatory public schools provided to them instead of peddling their services on the open market. They are practically guaranteed jobs at set rate thanks to public school system. Plus nice benefits.
This is why we should have NO billionaires NOT ONE
Once you get 999 million you win capitalism and everything else goes to we the people.
There's not a single person alive who needs that much money. And there's also not a single person alive who can possibly have worked hard enough to earn that much money.
I mean we can have them but frankly once someone reaches a certain net worth they shouldn't be allowed to be involved in politics or how the country is run in any capacity
@@CosmosFlow REVOLUTION! (french voice)
💯
It's also why Republicans want to end the Department of Education. They wealthy kids will attend elite schools public or private only regular people will be victims of these policies.
The purpose is to take taxpayer dollars and use it for their own kids tuition.
It is certainly not for poor kids to go to other schools.
Indeed. corruption and money in politics is the outrage. It's a coup.
It's to take taxpayer dollars and stick it in their own pocket.
They can already do that. They can afford to pay full-price for private school. Now the less-privileged can, as well.
My family went to Catholic schools, we had 5 kids on a single income, and we certainly were not rich. We received an infinitely better (and more importantly, safer) education than what our local public schools could have provided.
@@Charlotte_Martel yeah and people used to work their way through Harvard bussing tables and families went on Disney vacations with dad just working a mill job. I have some bad news for you though…. what you did in the past is irrelevant to what is possible now. Unless by single income you mean “dad is a brain surgeon” it’s very unlikely to hear the story you’re telling these days.
Betsy Devos is an awful individual.
Do you know her personally?
@@nline2blast722actions speak loud enough
Ditsy DeVos has been in the public eye long enough for us to know that she fights only for her own kind: Born Rich, Entitled, Privileged, White, Far-Right, & Uptight. She has ALWAYS been part of the problem, an activist for the Elite.
@@nline2blast722she worked for us, so yes, we know her very well.
@@nline2blast722 living in Grand Rapids for so many years it was easy to see from her. She married into wealth and became the secretary of education because of it.
This is just billionaires stealing taxpayer money with extra steps, and being held unaccountable as well!
And churches.
im still appaled they feeding our kids lunchables!! wtf no wonder they cant learn! 🤬🤬 kraft foods landed a hell of a contract w public schools smh.. ketchup is now considered a vegetable?! 😱🤯
The DeVos's are literally MLM grifters.
.....and not even paying their fair share in taxes either
You are getting your "news" directly from a propaganda organization.
Our country is a dumpster fire in need of massive change.
Great Re-Set for the entire world is on 09/23/26. That's when THEY unveil the NEON GAUD. You will be Happy. Fentanyl Euphoria for the Sunday Masses (the Pope will be crowned Vicarius Dei of the One World Religion). Inspired by Huxley's SOMA -- a synthetic opiate to replace religion -- for a Brave New World Order. You WILL want more, so do as you're told. Resistance is fatal. But first: God vs God vs Not God vs No God in the Name of Jesus. Thesis vs Antithesis = Synthesis.
Start by ending lesser evil voting. Look where it's gotten us.
My guess is you haven't actually lived in a dumpster fire country? South Sudan? Yemen?
@@Brokenhill42 All these video game and anime kids have no idea what life is like in actual authoritarian, third world, war torn, or collapsed countries... which is most of the world. Honestly, I wouldn't mind trading them for hard working people that actually will care about this country.
While I have a lot of conservative views and I live in a very red state, things like this are what is making me vote blue this election year. The radical conservatives behind this are insane. Many of them grew up in the 50's and 60's so they know first hand how much taxpayer-funded services benefit the people from education to buying an affordable home. In the end, it's all so they can line their pockets at the suffering of people; children no less.
I wish you luck, I've lived in both a deep red and deep blue state and I feel this election is going to be really hard for the center right. In concept the right supports the same view, but in practice it's so extreme it's almost treason. I respect you for questioning your party, as people on the left should do so too.
I think we can all agree money in politics (Citizens United) was a huge negative accelerant to the breakdown of democracy. Shocker /s
@@darianbarber3763 there aren't THAT many actual Democrats anymore. The tent is so wide it takes up 80% of the political spectrum. I don't know anyone voting blue who is an actual Democrat, I'm a leftist myself. So most don't question our party because we don't have one! 🙃
@@frankthemousepie As someone on the left, we can definitely agree on that. There sure was corruption before, but man have things just gone to the moon since.
This IS right wing politics. Right wing political theory believes in hierarchy. The goal is to keep money and power at the top. Both main American political parties do this but Republicans do it at an accelerated rate because they are further right. Think about it - separate but equal worked this way. Black schools were under funded and not supported while white schools were. This is how the system works. There's always an underclass.
Sick of Billionaires yet ? Still wondering why majority of Americans hate Billionaires ??
The irony of using a billionaire’s product to complain about billionaires
@@cdevidal what other option does he have? Make his own phone? Damn bootlickers
@TrisMacLife well, one option would be to show a little appreciation for the things they do well... just sayin'
@@cdevidalfound the home schooler.
@Chainchomp432 Nope. Public school.
Billionaires are against us, the peasants.
They will invest into whatever will make them even more money!
It’s not just Nebraska. The same exact proposal is on the ballot in Kentucky this November. Thank you for getting the word out
And my state, Iowa
NEBRASKANS - Vote "REPEAL"to Referendum Measure #435 (this is the ballot initiative referenced in the video)
Billionaires are evil.
Watch Adam Conover on banning billionaires. We should support that.
There are only 800 billionaires in the United States over a 100 of them live in New York. Which is controlled by democrats. go figure
And poor people are evil. So are middle class. "There is none righteous, no not one." (Rom 3:10)
Right wingers are evil.
Some are. Do you know all billionaires personally? Unwise to make sweeping statements like that.
I don't have kids, yet I have to pay for public schools, and I am happy to do so as it supports America!
You could pay schools directly instead of advocating for my tax dollars to support your cause. Just sayin’
@@cdevidalnot realistic. What would be the mechanism and catalyst for such a system to work? See don’t just say random things, offer solutions or you’re not moving the discussion along.
So how would we do that with out billionaires privatizing it and causing the same issue?
Ben Franklin said, "There can be no true democracy if the masses are not educated."
@@cdevidal Don't be such a brat
@LafemmebearMusic The only logical solution is to get rid of the public school system entirely. It's become a government indoctrination center, and fails at teaching real life skills. Massive investment for negative returns. Let the private sector freely compete and lower prices. Private schools are widely regarded to be superior; Even in the comments section for this video, I've seen unintentional implied praise for it.
Or, we can keep doing the same thing. Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing but expecting different results.
We have this problem in Ohio. Private schools brag about test scores but expel anyone who doesn't perform or misbehaves. It is a racket.
My public school expelled anyone who underperformed
@@dogguy8603 bs
@BlackJesus8463 i literally saw it happen to someone lmao
Yep. We have a similar system to vouchers in Australia. My foster kid was with another carer who sent him to a good private school. Got expelled from kindergarten...
My friend teaches at that school. It was to protect the school reputation so wealthy parents don't leave.
@@MrZoomah In most people's experiences who are critical of private schools, they've historically been run like gated communities and used as status symbols.
Yep and then they can teach kids their own fictional history!
You mean what the Democrats have been trying to do in public schools? There’s a reason people want to be able to choose their kids schools
As opposed to the fictional history that the State run indoctrination system has been teaching for decades?
Can’t be any worse than the fictional history the public schools indoctrinate our children with…
since being a billionaire is boring, why don't we confiscate their wealth and have them work 12 hour days?
Do that and you'll fund the government for about nine months
So you want them to move to Europe, thank you in advance 😂
LOL, absolutely.
@@Valentina.Montano Why would anyone leave the most lucrative market in the world? We can tax billionaires whatever we want and they'll stay here and take it with a smile. Know why? Because they wont be able to make the same money anywhere else.
Make them work blue collar jobs like unloading trucks in 110-130 degree heat.
Education should always be open and free not put behind a pay wall that's just ass backwards
The Texas Gov. last session said that the Voucher bill was his #1 priority (I wonder what would make it #1?). Rural school districts opposed it and it failed. Even after (if I recall) 3 special sessions.
As retribution, the Gov primaried all legislators that voted the way their citizens demanded. Some got replaced. He will try again next session. This is all after Texas has been cutting public school funding in various ways for decades. Since underfunding has not worked, the billionaire (can't recall his name) has decided to increase the pressure on the Governor.
Texas GOP strategy is to keep them stupid or they will vote the Republicans out
Abbott sold his soul a little more than ten years ago. Worked under him before governor, amazing the change. Paxton, his replacement had no soul...but sold everything else.
Wilks family is one of them
@@FirstnameSurname738 Farris Wilks wouldn't surprise me. He funded the Intellectual Dark Web after all.
Texas is also funneling tax payer dollars to failing charter schools in Colorado
Imagine that, money you think is going to local schools is actually going to some fuckers failing schools in a completely different state. I'd be so pissed
Division between church and state.... Most of these private schools are church-based
Secularism is not a solution.
And public schools are glorified indoctrination camps.
@@metalrocker627 Secularism is the only thing keeping religious people alive.
@@clamhammer2463 No. Disagree. God is who is keeping ALL of us alive because we are ALL absolutely nothing without God. Whether if you believe in Him or not.
@@metalrocker627 My warning to you isn't up for debate.
I went to a private school and it was awful deprived of deep information education. It was simply he is a standardized scholastics books and good luck. I am only typing with sophistication is my skills. I didn’t learn anything from this private school. It’s not worth our taxes
Unfortunately, a lot of private schools hire Teach For America trained teachers, who haven't gone through a certified teaching program with its required breadth.
My younger sister was a teacher, and my son was accepted into the campus-supported elementary experimental school there. I was astounded at the level of expertise of all the teachers there, plus all the classroom aides were students in the elementary education program at the school.
There are a lot of aspects of child development and behavior that aren't taught when you simply award someone with a degree in another subject a permit to teach children, like Teach For America does.
@@Judith-wq2jp I know that firsthand as my last teacher was more interested in French class than anything else and her teachers aid was a dropout who less qualified than me
What's Classy if you are Rich, but Trashy when you are Poor?
Getting Money from the Government.
Having as many children as possible with as many women as possible
Stealing this.
@@harryyoseminy7623 Elon Musk?
This trend is sickening. We must strengthen our public school system by providing more funding so that better teachers can be hired, earn a livable wage, and supplied with the resources they need to provide students a quality education where science and critical thinking are taught. Moral values should be included in their broadest application as a cornerstone of a progressive society and not as a narrow-minded construct of religious belief.
Does it feel to anyone else like the US is being "wound down"? A lot of the institutions that we've always relied on, ones that function as a marker for a well-functioning society, seem to be weakening or outright collapsing. It's becoming more and more difficult to live with dignity for increasingly many Americans. And the people with the power to do something about it don't seem particularly concerned, almost as if this is what they want. We're regressing in a way that seems unprecedented, and we're powerless to intervene in a way that also seems unprecedented. Is the plan for the US to just become a shell of itself, a place where no one who works for a living would want to live? What's going on?
What are health care, education, & prisons?
Things that should not be for profit.
Churches are non-profit. I'm okay with church-run health care and education.
Right, also corrals for people clearly. Herds need management no that’s what all those do
100%
Churches are non-profit. I'd be okay with church-run health care and education.
So churches could run more healthcare and education. They're non-profit. I'm okay with that.
Private school are already for the wealthy people so why our tax should go there ?
that's not always the case there are affordable private/religious schools granted since govt. got involved in Ed cost has increased for ex my dad paid 50 cents a week tuition to attend Sacred heart K-8 school in East Boston from 1964-1973
No. Not always. Many times they are just children of hard working automotive plant workers or tiny mom n pop company owners who want their children to have a better opportunity and education. Especially if you live in a big city with crappy public schools. Many friends in the Detroit area don't want their kids to go to Detroit public schools. They drive their children an hour away to gain a better education in a better environment. The system is not perfect, things need to change.
@courtneypuzzo2502 So your father was incredibly privileged. Makes me wonder who he knew in the system to get that sort of treatment.
@@bjarkiengelsson no he wasn't he was a working class kid his father was a wedding dress pattern cutter/phone operator in Stolen cars division and his mom was a waitress
Why should our tax go there? So that non-wealthy people can _also_ send their kids there. Not everyone believes public schools are healthy.
Politicians in AZ have always struggled to make education a priority but since the voucher program kicked in they found all kinds of fraud associated with it. And AZ has fallen to the absolute bottom in terms of education since.
Finland bans private schools and has the best educational system in the world pretty much by all accounts.
@@vg7985 That's because they understand that children's schooling is public commons. The idea of converting it into a for-profit enterprise is inherently left off the table there.
@@dominicfucinari1942 It also helps when 91% of the population is the same demographic
@@wafflecone_wombatdroneno that has nothing to do with anything
@@kanjonojigoku8644 You'd be surprised how much that metric matters, and how many countries we often list as model countries that are of a similar makeup
Student in Washington talking.
My state has made steps that produced the effects of increasing funding for charter schools and cutting funding for low property income areas.
The effects have been disastrous. Dozens of teachers have been laid off in our district. Average class sizes have ballooned from 20 to 30 people.
Some teachers willingly quit to pursue other job fields. Citing job instability.
It's bad
@@merekcook573 so sorry to hear this. Very sad. 🤗
You are making up nonsense. The maximum class size is designated by Initiative 1351, which is 22-25 students per class.
@MikeDonaldson-eh2ru Reality isn't always dictated by the rules set on paper. Chior classes, by definition, have to be able to bypass that limit. The amount of singers chiors need regularly is higher than that.
Exceptions exist, especially when a school district has no choice.
A good example of our congress being for sale
Since they're all so corrupt, let's reduce government
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott is determined to get vouchers. He backed challengers to Republican legislators who opposed vouchers, and most of the challengers won in the primary. Meanwhile, school districts are being forced to cut their budgets as state funding has been tied to passing vouchers, and some districts will now ask voters to raise their tax rates.
That's awful
These wealthy people do not feel “their” money should go to poor people. It’s simply a way for them to collect back their taxes.
But its not a good strategy - esp now, we need good schools and we need to find ways to make sure the best of the best ends up on top.
Figuring out how to hijack a system is not the best of the best.
Nobody deserves your money more than you do.
These wealthy billionaires are truly and obviously WICKED.
If public schools weren't absolute failures this wouldn't even be an issue.
Exactly.
Public schools will go bust and they’ll change the rules on who can ‘go’ to school vs stay home and get educated on an iPad. “Education is a privilege, not a right.” They’’ll say, all under the guise of giving parents education choice. Want your kids to go to school? you have the right get them any education to you choose. For the right price. Then when private school costs explode, parents will wonder what happened to the public option. Others will admonish the parents that they should have thought about that before having kids, what did they expect ?
lol. Exactly. I always wonder why people who hate Obama care for their healthcare ( it’s basically the same voucher system) are pushing vouchers in education.
If there are more teachers out there, the price will be reasonable. If no public schools, these teachers have to peddle their services on the open market. Heck anyone should be allowed to teach. If their student can pass certain standardized tests then who cares if the "teacher" has the proper degree. This way the labor supply expands for teaching. High labor supply means less price charged.
@@MbisonBalrog right. Do you want your surgeon to be “market based” too? We can learn how to do surgery from UA-cam videos.
@@MbisonBalrogidk how you can say these things without realising how horrific it is Americans are truly brain broken by capital
@@MbisonBalrog personally I care whether or not my child's history teacher is qualified to teach history....
Education is the mortal enemy of predatory capitalism
Happen here in ohio. You take your kid from public school & get a voucher,
Public schools as less power to hide their scores compared to private schools. Even if a kid never shows up, as long as they are enrolled, They get automatic F but yet still got to show it.
The real fun will be when a wave of consolidation comes and these private institutions will end up ran by a handful of monopolies that inevitably will have to 'cut costs' and 'streamline.' The end result will be worse.
Private schools typically don't consolidate like that, they instead open more branches to outcompete others
It's true, the rich do make our lives worth. But not billionaires. Politicians and unions and other grifters who are handsomely paid while contributing nothing of value to the economy - people who produce nothing. I get it - stupid people blame billionaires for their personal shortcomings. But that's not reality.
This takes money away from public schools. If people want to send their children to private schools, they should pay for that, not tax payers.
Do you also get your the tax dollars back that you paid for public schools that are currently failing the children? Didn't think so.
@@RandomYTCommenterwe privatized in Arizona and we dropped to 50th in the country in education, so it obviously is not working.
@@RandomYTCommenterWe don't need to. Because public schools aren't siphoning our tax money away to their billionaire deans wallets.
@@RandomYTCommenter they are defunding schools. Public schools are struggling and failing by design.
It is not bc the public school systems are incompetent or incapable, but bc they are systematically being defunded to turn education into another industrial complex.
When are we going to wake up???
@@RandomYTCommenterbecause they keep cutting education funding. Stop doing that and fully fund the schools.
Take notes on which representatives voted for that bill against the wishes of their constituents and vote them out next elections.
In Jacksonville, FL, public school closures are multiplying due to the funds that are diverted from public schools to private/charter schools.
I see a lot of comments along the lines of “you should ask why parents wouldn’t want their kids in public schools”. I think this ignores that there are public schools that are sought after in some areas… our system ensures that there is not a level playing field even among public schools. Some of them offer fantastic opportunities for students… but most of the rural schools, or schools in more impoverished urban areas don’t get that kind of funding. They instituted vouchers in Arkansas, currently 7,000 a year for tuition assistance. The good private schools cost a heck of a lot more than that. So most people are still going to have no choice but to send their kids to a public school despite all of the language about these bills being about parent choice.
It's only about rich people lording it over the rest of us
I went to public schools and while they had flaws, they were probably some of the best schools in America. I had fun learning for the most part. I was probably one of the poorest kids there, but I got a rich education. I wish all schools in America were like those. America already has the blueprint for great public schools. It’s funding that is the issue.
@@ZZ-qy5mvand vouchers are defunding education, so it's not gonna get better
Oh please. Baltimore throws more and more money at its public schools each year with increasingly poorer results. This is a community/family issue, not a funding issue.
@@Charlotte_Martel Charlotte, you're an effectively anonymous account whose sole participation in this site is commentary. Your story is just that, a story. You provide no attribution, no proof, and no accountabilyt. You just shit a narrative out your mouth and expect us to believe it. I don't.
Programs like this are being tried in Arizona and it has proven to be an abysmal failure. But that won't stop Republicans from keeping their rich friends from making a few extra bucks.
Any change will be a failure until a successful model is given by the free market. Our Public schools are failing. My dad worked for a private for profit college that offered $30k (B average in grades to qualify) in tuition savings to make the cost lower than attending a state university for the same degree. I’m looking at enrolling in WGU which is a flat $7,500/semester (2 semesters/yr) for unlimited credits obtained during that period. My friend completed his English degree for $15k in one year and I’m planning on doing the same. I think that the school voucher system probably needs to be further regulated to ensure some outcomes but should not be repealed. I think there are positives of private industry if done correctly. Inner city schools are horrible. If a family wants to homeschool there kids, why shouldn’t they help home schooling parents? $100k per year is not much in dense cities LOL. I live in SF and with taxes and rent being so high. Why shouldn’t I get $7,500 per year from the school voucher to help me teach my kids? Man I’m really BALLING LOL off that. Fk this video.
@@lasercorn2399 a rich person pays $200k in property taxes and a person in an average American home pays $4-10k a year in property taxes. Who stands to benefit more from school choice?
Except that per capita, the Demonrat party has always had more millionaires (and billionaires) than the Republican'ts.
@@Brian-tb1op One of my sisters got one of her master's degrees from WGU. Same deal.
@@Brian-tb1op How rich?
I smell evil from these billionaires
I smell evil coming out of public schools and what they are and are not teaching our children!
The Right wants religion in schools because they believe that will enable them to program more children to become Conservative voters without the oversight of the state education board. In the end, this is a long play to enable Oligarchy in the USA.
That's because you're a commie.
They wouldn’t back it if they couldn’t make more money.
There is no such thing as a good billionaire, otherwise they wouldnt be billionaires
The situation with the schools is becoming ridiculous; it's disheartening that this remains an issue.
WISCONSIN HAS BEEN SUFFERING FROM THIS CRAP FOR YEARS, CAUSED MANY TEACHERS TO RETIRE OR QUIT
Good!! Let them quit.
Maybe they should fix the school? Nope, must be a billionaires fault.
@@hereforthecomments258 fix the school with what money exactly? if you watched the video you would know that funding that could go to public schools is being allocated for these private school vouchers so they literally don't have the money to "fix the school" like you're saying
What Scott Walker did to Wisconsin is unforgivable
Retiring and quitting, proving yet again that government cannot compete with private sector jobs for pay and quality. The efficiency of the DMV married to the compassion of the IRS.
Private should mean no public money. Whether it's schools, nursing homes, hospitals. These private entities want to operate in public spaces because the government is a reliable payer of it's bills.Private means profits for owner investors. Not returned to the public.
Taxes paid by the public going to private business. How tf is that allowed?
it's going to childrens education
Because private businesses own our politicians
Huh. Been living under a rock have you?
It's allowed because in red states, too many people have been brainwashed by Fux News into believing that all teachers are progressive Dems who have too much political power in 'Murica because of their union & they all want to teach your kids to be "woke". But you, patriot, can circumvent that by putting Repubs in charge who will pass laws to let parents siphon money out of the evil public school system through "vouchers" they can use to send their kids to private schools.
As of 2022, there were 49.6 million students enrolled in the US K-12 public school system. None of these crackpot conservatives will admit that their privatization schemes, even if they'd had a 50 year head start, will EVER create a private school market big enough to educate even half of those 50 million public school kids. All they really want is to defund the public school system & leave everyone who's not a rich Republicon stuck with home schooling their own kids.
They make it sound like it’s all good for everyone but it’s not. This is how class warfare is fought now.
So in the end, it's one set of political buddies wanting to spread money among their own against another set of political buddies wanting to spread money among their own. It's all a grift
It's more complex than that. But yes, grifters tend to make it far in politics when people stop paying attention to who they are voting for.
No, it's one set of private business holders trying to funnel public money into their own pockets vs a group of people trying to keep the lights on at the public school that belongs to everyone.
@@Thezuule1 I agree. And guess who those private businesses make sure they fund to win elections in return for lucrative contracts that drain tax dollars? Political buddies.
This is what Reaganomics was always meant to Do.
From the poor to the rich. The picture of the funnel was merely upside down.
I remember sitting at the table (seen not heard) listening to my grandpa talk about what the results of trickle-down economics were going to be. At least he's dead and didn't have to see it come true.
@@kreiner1 he probably voted for these people and helped make it happen, shame he isn't here to see what he helped cause.
@Thezuule1 what an amazingly hateful thing to say. I'm going to assume you are a trumpet. Because whether you are or not, you sound like one.
@@kreiner1 and I’ll just assume he voted for Reagan and this is at least in part his fault.
Evil doesn't have a leg to stand on without stupid people buying in. Self sustain or be owned
What you really have to ask yourself is.. Why don't people want their kids in public school? I think if we could fix that issue, then this wouldn't be a thing.
It’s hard to fix classism and even harder to fix racism.
Step 1. Underfund public education.
Step 2. Complain about a decrease in education quality
Step 3. Divert more taxpayer funding from public to private education.
Step 4. Own shares in a private education institution, and profit off the failing public schools.
Step 5. Repeat
@@Said_w_the_Gexactly
If they got the money for vouchers, they got the money to give the public schools a higher budget.
Crooked is as crooked does. If there is money to be made, the fleecing and funneling will commence. Education suffers as always. Only the people can change this. Good luck kids.
Omg, I read about these quirky voucher programs during my course work as reforms for schools in developing nations, typical new liberal bs.
The continuing transfer of wealth. These policies will affect all working people and the poor. Everyone should be outraged. Here in Tennessee, the governor is pushing hard for school vouchers. The wealthy have the money. As you can see, there is plenty of money to fix our public school system. Billionaires rather spend their money on enforcing their will.
The issues with the public school system aren't a money problem. Let people choose where they want to go to school. Let schools compete.
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I saw the churches building schools when I was in school myself in the 90s. I feared the worst, and apparently it was worse. I knew exactly what the churches were up to because I grew up in it but was lucky to have gone to public schools.
Look at actual statistics. The public education system is an absolute disgrace.
Republicans keep giving billionaires unchecked power
Exactly
Democrats too. They are all bought and paid for. They are trying something like this in Kentucky. Rand Paul is behind it, so it can't be good.
Because they keep giving them unchecked money. Sometimes they're one in the same even
And democrats keep killing their competition....
Whenever a billionaire offers money towards vouchers,that means that there are ways to make money from it and not altruistic and they are a mostly dishonest and corruptly discriminatory.
That's how Finland works and it's doing great, it's the US who have too many rich people without limitations.
EBT
@@timetowakeup6302 Sorry, did you have a seizure or do you not know how to communicate?
The fleecing of America continues.
I'm getting sick of these rich ppl. I'm getting to the point, I'm eagerly waiting a video titled "Billionaires dragged from their homes and..." Like, what the fuck is it going to take?
French Revolution 1790
I want to see the headline "FBI bankrupts and arrests all American billionaires for treason and domestic terrorism"
A lot of lobbying money flows from the other side too. To keep the status quo so they can sell you on the next solution.
"Private Schools don't have a non-discrimination requirement," answers exactly what their actual goal is. They want to be able to kick out anyone they find "undesirable."
Privatizing education is one of the worst possible things that could happen in thos country.
I had thought the voucher programs were to help urban white kids to go to schools where not most of the African American kids were going, or to help the smarter black kids go to schools where not-most- of-the-African-American kids were going.
Public schools in our blue area have become really inefficient, unsafe and politicized. Students think they “deserve” achievement rather than earning it. They think their “truth”, or victim mindset is what makes them special enough to pass. It’s sad and it really hurts them when they enter the world because they wake up and realize employers just need them to perform their tasks and do a job. The department of education has largely dumbed down education because they keep terrible teachers and disincentivize good ones.
Luckily, in our area, many parents are moving toward homeschooling co-ops because private school is unaffordable without vouchers (aka the taxes those parents were forced to pay the failing public school system).
We know of a few really great teachers who now offer their services to work with these student co-ops. It seems to be working well; the students are actually learning and the teachers get to actually teach. They no longer need to navigate all the obstacles the department of education implemented to water down education.
This video may be correct in that public schools are being hurt, but they should interview parents who have pulled the kids from public schools and used the vouchers to see if there kids are doing better.
If a school outside of public education teaches kids about practical application of skills that translate to the real world, rather than criticizing their lack of “certification”(aka standards set by the department of education) it should instead reflect that it’s time to reevaluate the standards.
Hi there. Were you able to watch the entire video? It does report on that very question you raised about whether the students are doing better using the vouchers. Apparently, they are not doing better.
Public education isn't free, but without a cash profit motive, the economic benefits can be shared by the working class rather than being hoarded by the rich.
We must get money out of politics. It the only way to stop this madness.
You can't get money out of politics. Money drives politics, like ideology.
If in a hungry country 1 guy hoarded 1 billion meals instead of 1 billion dollars, what would happen?
I really don't understand the need billionaires have for making everyone else suffer and the world a worse place. You're already a billionaire, can't you just buy another yacht and go have fun and leave society alone?
It's about control and entitlement.
It's about having the poor do society's dirty work.
Even as a homeschooling parent, I would never support this. Public schools need better funding to be able to meet students' varying needs.
It's so hard to watch these because they make me so angry I start to heat up and sweat. I hate corporations so much.
touch some grass
Same here.
Same here. conservatives, corporations and billionaires RUIN everything they touch!!
@@TheOG-GG There must be loads of conservatives, billionaires, and corporations in the inner cities then.
@@TheOG-GGyea
For profit schools, we saw what happened when they privatized hospitals and prisons. We are the commodity
Don't public schools have enough to contend with? Haven't we learned from charter ? why would you wanna create yet another cherry picking vacuum of public funds?
Bc you know public schools are good for democracy, and you hate democracy. Education is the enemy of a conservative.
Setting up parallel institutions is a key tenet of Project 2025.
Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for poor
Billionaires would make so much more money if they went after each other. Leave the rest of us alone! Stop stealing the money from our labor and stop price gouging everything! Just go after each other to make your billions/trillions. You want to make more money? Bankrupt Elon Musk and private equity. Leave the rest of us alone!
The oligarchs want to be sure their servants are trained the way they want them. Our public schools do, however, need to do better. We're not staying competitive on a global level
Isn't Betsy DeVos the sister of Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater?
Arizona expected a shift of $30m, but it was actually $500m... why the discrepancy? Could it be that public schools are often terrible and people wanted out? This report is very one sided...
So if Arizona spent 500 mil on existing public schools would they be as terrible is the question you are not asking.
This "report" is propaganda funded and created by ActBlue.
Reagan 101. Starve the baby, blame the baby, privatize the baby!
Dumb down the education of the working class in order to create a submissive working class, that will be the end result of what big money is up to with school vouchers and the partial privatization of the public school system
Education is a necessity, we shouldn't privatize necessities. Some things shouldn't be about making money. We need to stop allowing greed to infiltrate every aspect of our lives.
public education is harmful, private education works
Communism sucks everywhere it has ever been tried.
You can't eliminate money or greed
@@scifirealism5943 We can make systems where it isn't prioritized and put above everything else.
@@ComradeCatpurrnicus how? If money is needed to fund everything?
These people aren't invulnerable. We need to take action.
This is the Rights ploy to go around the separation of church and state.
I'm a Nebraskan with a child the quality of our school system and my child's education was horrible before this. Thank God I make enough that I was able to pay for a better education but most do not.
It's time to revolt against big business and the rich all across the country and economy!!!!!
We have the blueprint for great public schools. I went to great public schools. Money is the biggest issue. My schools had the funding they needed for a great learning environment.
This amendment is on our ballot. I voted NO in. support for it.
If parents choose to send their children to private schools they should be able to afford all amenities needed to their ideals.
Public schools need the funding because others can't afford a private school.
It's their choice.
Just like there is a separation of church and state. Churches pay no taxes.
VOTE NO ON THIS BILL.
It is something that wouldn't pass on the floor so they send it to the people to vote.
VOTE NO
I guess you don't support the underprivileged being granted the means to secure a quality education for their children. Can't have too many 'brown' children in the private schools, can you?
Thank you for doing this on our state!!
It's not enough that in the US schools in poorer areas are underfunded, thanks to stupid laws (money is distributed according to the amount of taxes collected in a given district). This will make it worse.
Funny that the rich keep insisting they need OUR money. Without OUR money they wouldn't be rich in the first place. Every rich person is a criminal and dooms the society they are in just by existing. Income/wealth limits being imposed and properly enforced would do wonders! Like no one in the world is allowed to have/make money than 30 million USD. Seriously no one needs more than that to live on. Even 30 million is too much.
I am a teacher. Public school solve problems. And they need the public’s help. It’s an impossible and impossibly good thing we are trying to do, to teach everyone.
The tax payer has put their foot down. You're playing a risky game in trying to circumvent what the tax payer has already demanded.
If only rich people couldn't buy political decisions.....
For me as someone from europe to see this huge undermining of public education.. i don't know what to say
USA government had never care for it education system as public education is complete joke in US.
It dosen't matter is school in private,public,or state ownership.Becouse schools are created only for one thing,to "teach" children fake history,and to indoctrinate them.I to am from europe,from croatia to be precise.And i have see it,how croatian schools,are teaching fake history to children.Where they have discribed creation of Yugoslavian Kingdom as something "evil",and liberation of Zagreb and Yugoslavia in 1945,as "ocupation of evil partisans".And after war against serbs and SFRYugoslavia was finished,new fake history was written once more,and media is used to brainwash croats,and spread hate against serbs.And this is just one part of theys lies,the oldest lies are written by germany,vatican,and nordic history scool.Where they have portraited everything slavic,as part of some other nation.And even so their are many real historical records,from various induviduals,from various times,that speaks of slavs from ancient past before greece and rome.Thouse books are banned,destroyed,and ridiculed on wikipedia as "pseudo history",so that nobody coudn't learn real truth about the slavs.And same story goes for native americans,from north,messo,and south america.And this is supported by the mainstream historians,that tells only lies.I have see one video from Thomas Sowell,that man has sed and supported so manny lies about slavs,that i coudn't stay calmed.And they are persistant in theirs lies,even so germans has admited in 1980,that fake slavic history was written ,and forced upon slavs on Berlin congress in 1890.They have even write book about it,and donate it to serbian SANU academy.Lots of things were discovered in 1980 just about slavs,but people don't know it,since lies of mainstream "historians",are stronger than real truth.
This is possibly just one stepping stone towards child labor. Remove the public schools and it's easier for corporations to come in an get cheap child labor.
FUCK YEAH NEBRASKA! spent some time there and I loved the people and they deserve way better than what fucking voucher programs can offer
I know, people are awesome in every state.
How is it legal for taxpayer money to be funnelled towards church-based education?
with all that lobby money.... those lobbyists could have just made a school fund and limit it to a membership for their "tribe".
but like always ... it is not about doing a thing for themselves, it is about power over others.
As a public school teacher here in NE, this is so scary and very sad.
I live kn a blue state, and there is still a massive push by outside groups to allow charter schools in our state. They've already pushed massive cuts to our schools. I'm terrified of what this could mean for our kids.
Can't be much worse for your kids than what they push now.
Depending on the state charter schools don't even have to have licensed teachers!
If quality public education is not widely available, in addition to all the other necessities, the birthrate will continue to fall.